The relationships of time and temperature to body weight and numbers of endospores in Pasteuria penetrans-infected Meloidogyne javanica females

Darban, D. A., Pembroke, B. and Gowen, S. R. (2004) The relationships of time and temperature to body weight and numbers of endospores in Pasteuria penetrans-infected Meloidogyne javanica females. Nematology, 6. pp. 33-36. ISSN 1388-5545 doi: 10.1163/156854104323072892

Abstract/Summary

Tomato plants inoculated with Meloidogyne javanica juveniles infected with Pasteuria penetrans were grown in a glasshouse (20-32degreesC) for 36, 53, 71 and 88 days and in a growth room (26-29degreesC) for 36, 53, 71 and 80 days. Over these periods the numbers of P penetrans endospores in infected M. javanica females and the weights of individual infected females increased. In the growth room, most spores (2.03 x 10(6)) were found after 71 days. However, in the glasshouse the rate of increase was slower and spore numbers were still increasing at the final sampling at 88 days (2.04 x 10(6)), as was the weight of the nematodes (72 mug). Weights of uninfected females reached a maximum of 36.2 and 43.1 mug after 71 days in the growth room and glasshouse, respectively.

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Divisions	Life Sciences > School of Agriculture, Policy and Development
Uncontrolled Keywords	biological control, hyperparasite, root-knot nematode, ROOT-KNOT NEMATODES, MASS-PRODUCTION, BACILLUS-PENETRANS, PARASITE
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